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Podcast: Tales from Sniper's Rest
Episode: The Shunned House
Description: Book Summary;
For many years the protagonist and his uncle, Dr. Elihu Whipple, have nurtured a fascination with an old, abandoned house on Benefit Street. Dr. Whipple has made extensive records tracking the mysterious, yet apparently coincidental sickness and death of many who have lived in the house for over one hundred years.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Inchoate; just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary.
- Febrile; having or showing the symptoms of a fever.
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